Improvement in combined stoves and boilers



o. L'DUFF'IELD.

Improvement in Combined Stove and Boiler.

N0.124,345 Patented March 5,1872.

A TTEST UPTON J. DUFFIELD, OF WHEELING, 'VESI` VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOE TOWIL- LIAM C. DUFFIELD, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CQMBINED STOVES AND BOILERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l'l4,345, dated March5, 1872.

Specification describing a new and useful Combined Stove and Boiler,invented by UP- '.roN J. DUFFIELD, of Wheeling, in the county of Ohioand State of West Virginia.

The invention is designed for family use, for laundry purposes, forboiling1 fruit, or as a heater merely, and is adapted to consume aslittle fuel as practicable. The primary obj ect is to furnish aneconomical apparatus for independent usefor these purposes, so as toavoid the disagreeable consequence of performing laundry work in thekitchen.

The rstove comprises a central water-heatin g jacket and two grates, apermanent one below and a removable one above. The water-heater isconnected by pipes wit-h the steam-j acket of a stationary wash-boiler.A fruit-boiler may be placed above the wash-boiler, and is heated by thesteam when required for cooking. A cover fits the wash-boiler or thefruit-boiler indifferently. The top of the stove may also serve forheating irons and for other purposes.

Figure l is a vertical section, showing the fruit-boiler in position onthe wash-boiler. Fig. 2 is a similar section, showing` the stove as aheater.

A represents a water-heater, the fuel-chamber forming the body orcentral part, being surrounded by a water-heating jacket. B'is the baseof the saine; and C, the top thereof; (Z d', the lids, the latteradapted to tit one in the other and separately removable. c is thefuel-door, and E, the smoke-pipe collar. D D are grates, arrangedrespectively in the base B and top O, the latter being removable,asindicated. The water-heater A has tubes a al the wash-boiler.

in emptying the wash-boiler. I is the fruitboiler. The cover t' litseither the wash-boiler or the fruit-boiler. When used as aclothesboiler, as represented in Fig. l, the wash-boiler F is partiallylled with water, which flows into the space c2 between the walls of theheater A and its tubes al n.1. The clothes are then placed in the boilerF, and tire kindled on the lower grate D, the interior walls of theheater and the tubes al al exposing a large surface to the action of there, and consequently heating the water with great rapidity. 'lhe uppergrate D is removed when the boiler is employed for this purpose, and thefruit-boiler or its lid t' used to cover the main boiler. As thusarranged, fruit may be boiled in the said boiler I, the saine beingheated by steam, while the top of the stove may be used for heatingsadirous. wWhen the main boiler A is not required, fire is made in theupper grate D', the same being placed in position as represented in Fig.2. Thetire-chamber is thus suitably contracted, the apparatus forming aheating furnace. The cover forms aheating-plate for smoothingirons andother purposes.

I am aware that stoves have been before made with jackets and pipes forheating and circulating water in a station ary wash-boiler. I do nottherefore claim this combination.

I claim as my invention- The combination of the stove, composed of baseB, top C, water-heater A, and stationary and removable grates D D', thepipes G- G, stationary wash-boiler F and lid 1'., with or without thefruit-boiler I, constructed and arranged substantially as shown anddescribed, for the purposes set forth.

UPTOAT J. DUFFIELD.

l Witnesses:

R. H. GrLLEsPr, J AMES CASEY.

